Geographer, born in Bolivar, Missouri, USA. After earning his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, he spent several years in China. In 1940 he joined the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he remained until 1975, with an interruption during World War 2. With William E Thomas he wrote Cultural Geography (1969), Asia, East by South (1971), and Introducing Cultural Geography (1973).
Joseph Spencer (October 3, 1714 – January 13, 1789) was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman from Connecticut. During the Revolutionary War, he served both as a delegate to the Continental Congress and as a major general in the Continental Army.
Spencer was born in East Haddam, Connecticut. He was active in the militia, serving in King George's War and as a Lieutenant Colonel of the Middlesex militia in the French and Indian War.
By the time the American Revolution began, Spencer had advanced to Brigadier General of Connecticut’s militia, and in April 1775 he led them to support the Siege of Boston as the 2nd Connecticut Regiment. In June, when these units were adopted into the national army, he was made a brigadier general in the Continental Army.
In 1776 Spencer was promoted to major general in support of William Heath in the Eastern Department.
Spencer first served on the Connecticut Council (or state senate) in 1776.
Twice married, Spencer had sixteen children.
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